Aug 19, 2011 | Amazon, Google, mail, Microsoft, Office 365, web_services
On August 10, the main data center for Exchange Defender suffered a catastrophic power failure. Clients using the spam filtering service had their incoming and outgoing mail interrupted or massively slowed for most of a day, and hosted mailboxes went offline for as...
Aug 17, 2011 | computers, Dell, hardware, Home_Server, Microsoft, Office 365, SBS, shopping
In April, with little fanfare, Microsoft released three new server products to manufacturing and to the hardware vendors: Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, Windows Home Server 2011, and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. Small Business Server 2011...
Jul 10, 2011 | business, Microsoft, Office 365, Outlook, software, web_services
Previously: Office 365 Part 1 – Overview Office 365 Part 2 – The Evolution Of Exchange Online Office 365 Part 3 – Collaboration With Sharepoint Online The final piece of Office 365, Lync Online, is tough to summarize. The focus is on communications with co-workers as...
Jul 5, 2011 | file_sharing, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, web_services
Previously: Office 365 Part 1 – Overview Office 365 Part 2 – The Evolution Of Exchange Online Sharepoint Online sets up an online portal that a business can use for a number of different things: Documents can be stored online with rich controls for sharing files...
Jul 2, 2011 | Microsoft, Office, Office 365, Outlook, SBS, web_services
Previously: Office 365 Part 1 – Overview Exchange Online is the compelling piece of Office 365 for small businesses and law firms. Even the smallest business should be considering the advantages of using Exchange to run its mail system, and Office 365 is now the...
Jun 30, 2011 | business, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, Outlook, web_services
Microsoft Office 365 is now available for small businesses. It is the most visible part of Microsoft’s efforts to migrate from shrink-wrapped software to services delivered online – “cloud” computing, in the current catchphrase. There is something of interest in...